Nearly 30k Murdered in Mexico in 2017

NEARLY 30,000 people were murdered in Mexico in 2017, it has been revealed.

Mexico posted its highest homicide rate in decades as the government announced Sunday there were 29,168 murders last year.

The number is the highest since comparable records began being kept in 1997 and is also higher than the peak year of Mexico’s drug war in 2011, when there were 27,213 murders.

The Interior Department, which posted the number, reported the country’s homicide rate was 20.5 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2017, compared to 19.4 in 2011.

But Mexico security analyst Alejandro Hope said Mexico’s murder rate is probably higher than the Interior Department statistics show, because the department does the per 100,000 count based on the number of murder investigations, not the number of victims, and a killing may result in more than one victim.